CVE-2025-48741 Missing authorization in TheHive
Unprivileged users can access sensitive alerts, cases, and logs via an API endpoint, bypassing permission checks in TheHive.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-48741?
CVE-2025-48741 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in StrangeBee TheHive, published on 23 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A Broken Access Control vulnerability in StrangeBee TheHive 5.2.0 before 5.2.16, 5.3.0 before 5.3.11, and 5.4.0 before 5.4.10 allows remote, authenticated, and unprivileged users to retrieve alerts, cases, logs, observables, or tasks, regardless of the user's permissions, through a specific API endpoint.
Weakness: CWE-266
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-48741?
How do I fix CVE-2025-48741?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-48741 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-48741 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48741 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x255-qvfv-83jw.